1590AD

1590AD, BURTON LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1125812
Date first listed:
21-Jun-1955
List Entry Name:
1590AD
Statutory Address:
1590AD, BURTON LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1125812
Date first listed:
21-Jun-1955
Date of most recent amendment:
26-Apr-1985
List Entry Name:
1590AD
Statutory Address 1:
1590AD, BURTON LANE

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
1590AD, BURTON LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Princes Risborough
National Grid Reference:
SP 81324 04346

Details

SP 8104 PRINCES RISBOROUGH BURTON LANE (MONKS RISBOROUGH)

8/152 1590AD (formerly listed as Cottage in Burtons Lane immediately S.W. of Flint Cottage, Woodbine Cottage and 21.6.55 Churchways, known as 1590 AD)

GV II

House. Late C16-C17. Timber frame with brick infill, the left bays with panels of C17 herringbone brickwork. Part of ground floor and part of left bay rebuilt in brick. Rendered plinth. Half-hipped old tile roof, chimney with triple shafts of thin brick and later brick top between right bays. Later external chimney to left. L-plan. 1½-2 storeys, 3 bays. Ground floor has 4 C20 leaded casements, the left with segmental head, the second in small oriel. First floor has similar windows in left bays, and 3-light casement in gabled eaves-line dormer to right. Central bay has C20 door in gabled timber porch. Heavy curved braces in rear wing. Attached to rear wing is a single storey range with timber frame, C20 brick infill and pantile roof, probably once an outbuilding. Interior has chamfered spine beams and stop-chamfered joists. RCHM I p.259 Mon.3.

Listing NGR: SP8132204345

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
46423
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire Volume One South, (1912)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Ordnance survey map of 1590AD

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